Coasting-sled



(1N0 Model.)

J. D. WILSON.

OOASTING SLED.

No. 885,652. Patented July 3, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN D. IVILSON, OF JENNINGS STATION, MISSOURI.

COASTlNG-SLED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,652, dated July 3,1838.

Application iiled February 3, 1888. Serial No. 262.9%. (No model) To It whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN D. WILsoN, of Jennings Station, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful lmprovelnentinCoasting-Sleds, of which the following is a full, clear, and we act description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This is a device forstarting, gnidingpr stopping the sled by means of a dog on each side, which is operated by a lever.

Figure I is a perspective view of a sled with my improvement applied thereto. Fig. II is a perspective view of the dog. Fig. III is a detail side elevation showing a modification. Fig. IV is a rear elevation of the modification.

The runners of the sled are shown at l, the side rails at 2, and thetop board at 3. At each side and at or near the rear end is a dog, 4, which is hinged at the upper end to the side rail by fulcrum pins 5, and Whose lower end, 6, is fitted to take a firm hold of the ice orsnow beneath the sled.

7 is a rod connecting the dog on each side to a hand-lever, 8, that is fulcrumed to the side rail at t). It will be seen that when the upper ward that side.

forward with sufficient force, the sled may be brought to a stand. to start the sled, the levers are brought against the stops 10, when the rear end of the sled will be supported on the dogs. To start the sled, the upper ends of the levers are moved forward,which moves the sled forward, the lower ends of the dogs remaining in position until thrown up clear of the track.

-In the modification shown in Figs. III and IV the dogs are set at the rear of the runners, the side rails being mortised at 11 to receive the upper ends of the dogs, through which pass the fulcrum pins 5. In this case the rear ends of the rods 7 are not shown as slotted to receive the dogs, but are hinged to the outer sides of the dogs. The stops 10 are dispensed with in this modification, as the rear ends of the runners form stops for the dogsin their forward movement.

I claim as my invention The combination, with a sled, of the independentlymovable dogs 4, depending from the fulcrum-pins 5 on each side of the sled, rods 7, connecting the dogs directly with the independently-movable hand-levers 8, and stops limiting the forward movement of the dogs, substantially as shown and described.

JOHI\ D. IVILSON.

In presence of SAML. KNIGHT, BENJN. A. KNIGHT.

\Vhen the dogs are used 

